{"id":3428,"date":"2009-02-21T10:47:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T10:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/21\/what-im-planning-to-nominate-f\/"},"modified":"2009-02-21T10:47:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T10:47:33","slug":"what-im-planning-to-nominate-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/21\/what-im-planning-to-nominate-f\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Planning to Nominate for the Hugos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now one week out from the deadline for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anticipationsf.ca\/pub\/hugos\/nominations.php\">Hugo Nominations<\/a>. I&#8217;m eligible to nominate this year, and while a couple of past requests for recommendations have failed to generate anything, I thought I&#8217;d throw up a preliminary look at my ballot in hopes of bringing in a few recommendations:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Novel<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>Anathem<\/cite> by Neal Stephenson. I don&#8217;t like his take on Many-Worlds, but it&#8217;s a terrific book all the same.<\/li>\n<li><cite>Sly Mongoose<\/cite> by Tobias Buckell. A fantastic setting, a great fast-moving plot, and some nice revelations about the universe.<\/li>\n<li><cite>Pirate Sun<\/cite> by Karl Schroeder. Cut-and-paste the comments from the previous book down here.<\/li>\n<li><cite>Nation<\/cite> by Terry Pratchett. Aside from the epilogue, a great non-Discworld Pratchett YA.<\/li>\n<li><cite>Little Brother<\/cite> by Cory Doctorow. A book that richly deserves its inevitable banning from school libraries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Best Novella\/ Novelette\/ Short Story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I got nothin&#8217;. I don&#8217;t read much short fiction. Recommendations are welcome, though, especially if they are available online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>The Dark Knight<\/cite>. Duh.<\/li>\n<li><cite>Hellboy II<\/cite>. Not the most coherent plot in the world, but it sure looked pretty.<\/li>\n<li><cite>Iron Man<\/cite>. Robert Downey Jr. was great fun to watch, even if the plot wasn&#8217;t the best.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ummm&#8230;. <cite>A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All<\/cite>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The John W. Campbell Not-a-Hugo-But-Awarded-at-the-Hugos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I only recognize a few names on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writertopia.com\/awards\/campbell\">list of eligible writers<\/a>. Of those, the one I&#8217;d be most likely to vote for is Brian Francis Slattery.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s pretty much everything. I realize I&#8217;m leaving a lot of categories blank&#8211; if you have a strong opinion about any of them, please, leave a comment telling me who I ought to nominate. I&#8217;m also willing to entertain suggestions for other novels that ought to be nominated&#8211; at least two of the five above are &#8220;Oh, what the hell&#8221; choices, thrown in to use all five slots. If you feel strongly that one of them does not deserve a nomination, or that some other book does deserve one, by all means, let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now one week out from the deadline for Hugo Nominations. I&#8217;m eligible to nominate this year, and while a couple of past requests for recommendations have failed to generate anything, I thought I&#8217;d throw up a preliminary look at my ballot in hopes of bringing in a few recommendations:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,35,37,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-movies","category-pop_culture","category-sf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}